Secular State
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Breaking news: The New Jersey Supreme Court just handed FFRF a unanimous victory declaring state grants to repair churches to be unconstitutional. FFRF attorney Ryan Jayne gives us the details. Author and researcher Linda LaScola, editor of the Patheos blog "Rational Doubt," congratulates "#MeToo" atheist women for speaking out against sexual harassment in the freethought movement. Then the Peruvian author Ricardo Zavala, president of the Freethinkers of Peru, describes the first-ever Latin-American Freethought conference he is organizing that will take place in Arequipa, Peru May 24-26, to promote a completely secular state.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.0 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.2 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:01.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gallo, and happy spring, even though it doesn't look like that right outside our window right now, some snow falling as we record this show. |
| 1:12.4 | And we are also happy here at the Freedom from Religion Foundation because there's been some favorable breaking news for FFRF and the separation of church and state, and we'll tell you about that in a minute. |
| 1:17.4 | And I'm Dan Barker. This is the April 19, 2018 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:24.6 | Our engineer today is Buzz Kemper, producing the show in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist studio, |
| 1:28.7 | in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom |
| 1:34.2 | from Religion Foundation, which is a national or really international association of freethinkers. |
| 1:39.9 | That means atheist agnostics and other skeptics, working to keep religion out of government. |
| 1:44.9 | And if you remember, we are grateful, and if not, we'd be glad to send you information about joining FFRF, a brochure and a copy of our April free thought today with a special section on our 40th anniversary month. |
| 1:59.0 | And just go to FFRF.org and look for the link on some more information or |
| 2:03.9 | the donate link to join us. On the second half of today's show, we're going to talk with |
| 2:09.6 | Ricardo Zavala. He's the Peruvian author. He's also a lawyer. He's organizing the first |
| 2:15.6 | Latin American Free Thought Conference, which will take |
| 2:18.8 | place in southern Peru next month. And you're going to be there, Dan. I will. And we're also |
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